A Escrava Isaura 7.137 · 7.137

The cruelest cut, and the most revealing. 'Aperaltada' — dandified, putting on airs — accuses Isaura of forgetting she is a slave, and 'conhecer o seo lugar,' to learn your place, is the whole ideology of the senzala in a phrase. Rosa, herself enslaved, has taken up the master's logic and turned it on her sister as a weapon.

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